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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Chapter 1 opens, which of the following describes the caravan?
(a) Peasants riding horses.
(b) One-horse wagons piled high with goods for the marketplace with drivers walking alongside the carts.
(c) Multiple horse carriages with the drivers riding in them.
(d) Peasants walking and carrying their belongings.

2. What is unusual about one of the wagons in the caravan?
(a) It is being pulled by a man and is carrying several children.
(b) It is led by two horses and it is carrying a very large pumpkin.
(c) It is fancier than the rest of the wagons.
(d) It is larger than any of the other wagons.

3. Despite the fact that he knows he might die as he faces the Tartars in 1241, what does the trumpeter decide to do?
(a) Try to kill the Tartars he sees.
(b) Flee to the castle.
(c) Sound the Heynal for Poland and Our Lady.
(d) Sound the trumpet for the lost people of Kiev.

4. In what year do the Tartars attack Poland?
(a) 1592.
(b) 1241.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1776.

5. When the Polish people hear the word "Tartar," they:
(a) Want to eat fish.
(b) Feel like dancing.
(c) Feel their the blood in their veins is going to freeze.
(d) Know they need to go pay some taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Tartars attack Krakow in the 1200s, what do the Polish people decide to do?

2. What does the stranger offer to buy from Pan Andrew Charnetski?

3. In the midst of all the destruction after the attack on Krakow, there is one Polish person left alive. Who is it?

4. Why do the men in the caravan carry weapons?

5. Which is the best description of the trumpeter as he plays amidst all of the destruction in Krakow?

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